# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-boateng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:39:30.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-boateng"
name: "Paul Boateng"
slug: "paul-boateng"
description: "Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng, is a British Labour Party politician, a former civil rights lawyer and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first Black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010."
tagline: "Politician and the UK's first black Cabinet minister (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Boateng_crop_2%2C_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1951-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.159582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/paul.boateng.355"
    handle:    "paul.boateng.355"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بول بواتينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول بواتينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng%2C_Baron_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulus_Boateng"
    title: "Paulus Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng"
    title: "Paul Boateng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump